Robocalls At An All Time High In U.S.

Has there ever been a time where you were in class or at work when your phone went off and it was a call from a number that you did not recognize? That may have been a robocall, and you ain’t the only one getting them.

A whopping 26.3 billion robocalls were made just last year, according to a report from Hiya. This number has increased by 47 percent since 2017, when there were 18 billion robocalls. That means that the average person would have gotten at least 10 robocalls.

Hiya also released their first annual State of the Call report. Their mission is to give insight “into how Americans use their phones on a monthly basis given the rise of robocalls.”

They found that there are over 11 billion calls that are made monthly, but only 52 percent of them get answered. The unanswered calls are mainly robocalls, telemarketers, and fraudsters, which Hiya calls “general spam.”

Just remember that when you get a call saying you have won a world-wide trip or a call telling you that you have won a million dollars from a contest that you never entered, it’s a scam and you probably shouldn’t answer calls like that in the future.